Law

Nervous System: Cybernetics and the Birth of Computer Ethics

The story of modern computer ethics begins, strangely enough, in wartime. As Nazi Germany escalated its bombing raids on England, American mathematician and physicist Norbert Wiener volunteered his ...
Yahoo

How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago

Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony ...
Gizmodo

Tracing the Birth and Life of the Computer

From Spacewar! to the iconic Apple II computer, from long-forgotten punch card systems to massive tape drives—the recently renovated Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California has it all. It ...
Singularity Hub

How Was the Wheel Invented? Computer Simulations Reveal Its Unlikely Birth Nearly 6,000 Years Ago

Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 BCE. Day after day, you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony ...
Houston Chronicle

How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kai James, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine you’re a copper ...